Finally, a Celeb Who Knows How to Handle a Nude Photo Scandal

I give Alison Pill a lot of crap each week about how awful her character, Maggie, is on The Newsroom. I find Maggie to be cloying, needy, and overly dependent on the men in her life. But with one nude photo scandal, Alison Pill the person, has separated herself in my mind from her character.

Earlier today, the 26-year-old accidentally tweeted a naked photo of herself. She claims she was trying to delete it, and it some how ended up on Twitter. OK, I don't really get how this happens to people—or why, for that matter, people take nude photos to begin with—but that's a whole different post. What impressed me about this incident was how Alison reacted. Immediately after realizing her mistake, she owned up to it and sent out an apology tweet—you know, like any normal person would:

I've never understood why more celebs don't handle similar situations the same way. By Alison not trying to cover it up and actually laughing about it, she completely diffused the situation and made everyone else—or at least this blogger—laugh too.

Thank you, Alison, for being so refreshingly upfront and honest. (Though you really may want to look into those settings on your phone… you know, for your own protection.)

What do you guys think of how she handled the sitch? Does it make you like her more? Anyone else wish her Newsroom character could be more like her and less like Maggie?

P.S. Check out Alison Pill in the October issue of Glamour, on sale now!